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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology enable students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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